Unlike periods, commas, question marks, exclamation points; semicolons and colons need to be excluded from the quote.
Use single quotation marks for quotes within quotes. Note that the period goes inside all quote marks. He said, "Danea said, 'Do not treat me that way.'"
Use quotation marks to set off a direct quotation only. "When will you be here?" he asked. He asked when you will be there.
Straight quotation marks (or italicized straight quotation marks) are often used when signifying feet and inches, arcminutes and arcseconds or minutes and seconds, where the quotation mark symbolises the latter part of the pair.
5 feet and 6 inches is written 5' 6",
40 degrees, 20 arcminutes, and 50 arcseconds is written 40° 20' 50".
Quotation Marks
Put periods and commas inside the quotation mark. This is the most common mistake writers make.
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Unlike periods, commas, question marks, exclamation points; semicolons and colons need to be excluded from the quote.
Use single quotation marks for quotes within quotes. Note that the period goes inside all quote marks.
He said, "Danea said, 'Do not treat me that way.'"
Use quotation marks to set off a direct quotation only.
"When will you be here?" he asked.
He asked when you will be there.
Straight quotation marks (or italicized straight quotation marks) are often used when signifying feet and inches, arcminutes and arcseconds or minutes and seconds, where the quotation mark symbolises the latter part of the pair.
5 feet and 6 inches is written 5' 6",
40 degrees, 20 arcminutes, and 50 arcseconds is written 40° 20' 50".
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